`await` is useful since with the absence of it you can schedule multiple tasks concurrently. In JS: var task1 = someAsyncTask1() var task2 = someAsyncT

`await` is useful since with the absence of it you can schedule multiple tasks concurrently. In JS: var task1 = someAsyncTask1() var task2 = someAsyncTask2() await Promise.all([task1, task2]) If `await` was implicit then task2 would wait for task1 to finish.